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by avar 3y ago
I've rarely seen it referred to as "WW2", as opposed to "WWII", but apparently it's been in relatively rare but consistent use in English [1] for a long time. Tweaking the query reveals that it's relativel
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by avar 3y ago
There has, but it's mainly targeted towards workarounds for the walled gardens. For $100 on AliExpress you'll find ink by the liter instead of milliliter, syringes or custom cartridges to refill the printer, and "chip reset&q
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by avar 3y ago
The article asserts that water bills have gone up 360% in Britain since privatization, then that "bills are lower in Scotland, whose water company is government-owned". I'm not in the UK, but searching for what those is Brita
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by avar 3y ago
Then book a doctor's appointment at a library, café, or if you truly have to do it at home a neighbour would surely spin up a hotspot for you in the 5 minutes it takes if it's a dire emergency. Someone with no home connection to t
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by avar 3y ago
What's the legal basis for making their integration program mandatory if North Korean "refugees" are full citizens? What law would a person who refused the program be charged under?
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by avar 3y ago
> The only difference with > COVID was the scale, not > the methodology. There was a lot of novel contact tracing methodology during COVID-19, e.g. contact tracing though Bluetooth "contacts": https:&#
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by avar 3y ago
The article suggests a different tire material, but this wouldn't do anything about breaking dust. There's been work on active capture systems, e.g.: https://sciencebridge.de/en/brake-dust-collector.html What
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by avar 3y ago
They could do it without appointments. Just require that prospective buyers bring their car keys. Then tell anyone driving something less fancy than a Mercedes S-class or equivalent to fuck off :-) It's funny to see a company rooted in
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by avar 3y ago
Perl was born as an NSA project, this old HN thread has some good references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 As for as I know the only "official" reference to that is the "classified" and
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by avar 3y ago
> How could a banking app run without an account? I use two banking apps that have a FAQ feature that's just a fancy wrapper for their respective online knowledge bases. It's only due to laziness on their part that th
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by avar 3y ago
I've never understood this obsession in the tech industry with holding small to medium sized conferences in major cities. For something truly humongous you need a Las Vegas, but as a participant I'd much prefer the conference just
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by avar 3y ago
> the freshwater plume of the Amazon River extends more than 60km into the ocean. It really doesn't, or perhaps only in the most pedantic sense. That "ocean" is still the mouth of the Amazon itself, and most of it's l
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by avar 3y ago
I don't know about your case, or where you live. But generally you're not taking into account that the location of your town isn't random, it's probably the most desirable area for habitation in those hundreds of thousan
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by avar 3y ago
Imagine if by law you need to bus people from A to B every hour, but they get to pick when the trip takes place, but you need to buy and maintain the bus. Your bus can accommodate 40 passengers. At 2-5 in the morning you get only 5 passenge
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by avar 3y ago
> It’s a shame smart meters have such a bad rep in Europe due to the privacy issues. They've got a bad rep because they're some proprietary computer with a cellular modem transferring who-knows-what back and forth to the mother
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by avar 3y ago
I may be wrong, but I don't think this is accurate. If the goal were to consume excess production, power plants could just heat a pool of water on-site, or some similar industrial scale "pointless" electricity use. Rather, ne
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by avar 3y ago
It's less dangerous, but some of the flammability is inherent in the chemicals withing the battery, and how they'll react to oxygen or water. Let's say that you were able to magically disassemble a cellphone battery into its
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by avar 3y ago
Why would the chain be a problem? The Romans could make metal rods, rivets, and some of their finer metalwork is crafted with more precision than any bicycle chain. The real difference is that it would take an army of ancient craftsmen to m
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by avar 3y ago
The craft might also have had a contained self-destruct mechanism. The mid-19th century would make eventual headway with an iPad, but not much if all they were left with was the remnants of one that had been vaporized.
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by avar 3y ago
An overview of it: https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-government-controls-sens...
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by avar 3y ago
I've never had a phone that refused to boot up with the battery fully removed and the USB charger plugged in.
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by avar 3y ago
A tip for you and anyone else doing this: do yourself a favor and get a heat gun or other tools required to at remove and recycle the battery, before your house burns down. I've had various old phones, laptops speakers etc. that became
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by avar 3y ago
You're both forgetting the ppc32 to ppc64 migration, i.e. G4 to G5 processors. It was a lot easier than the rest, but still come with its own migration and compatibility issues.
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by avar 3y ago
Iceland's expensive, but saying it's expensive because a hotel on Laugarvegur is expensive is like saying America's expensive because a hotel within walking distance of Times Square is expensive.
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by avar 3y ago
It's not in general, but the topic here is keeping in touch with your friends and family, not the relative culture shock of moving domestically or internationally. The real metric you'd want is travel time to "home base"
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by avar 3y ago
It is true. Only around 60% of Americans reside in the state they were born in. Whereas the median foreign born population in the EU in total is around 10-15%, and an even smaller percentage of that is internal EU migration. In both cases i
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by avar 3y ago
I'm an atheist, but this is an honest question: does it? My understanding of catholic doctrine is that Jesus was part of the holy Trinity and knew it before he sacrificed himself. Therefore when he sacrificed himself for humanity he
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by avar 3y ago
There isn't any prima facie problem with paying an extremely high interest rate. I'm sure you can find double digit interest rates for say bonds that represent payday loans, but you should expect the bondholders to default at a co
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by avar 3y ago
I can buy that, but I also think that we're now much less likely to replace USB-C, even if the reasons to do so in the future are just as compelling as the reasons for migrating away from micro. Actually, I think (but I'm no lawye
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by avar 3y ago
We can imagine that micro-USB got standardized in 2015, so in anticipation of that the first USB-C phone I bought that year came with micro-USB instead. The law would then have been reassessed in 2020, at which point some EU bureaucrats wou

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